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pictures on websites washed out, very high contrast

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irotram
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pictures on some websites appear to be very high contrast, impossible to distinguish content. Doesn't happen on same website with Safari. Does happen all the time e.g. when viewing several downloads images from a news source, most will appear normal but occasionally on will appear very bright and washed out.

pictures on some websites appear to be very high contrast, impossible to distinguish content. Doesn't happen on same website with Safari. Does happen all the time e.g. when viewing several downloads images from a news source, most will appear normal but occasionally on will appear very bright and washed out.

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cor-el
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This can be caused by a problem with the color profile for your display monitor or color profiles embedded in images. Try to disable color management to test if it is caused by a problem with color management. You can set the gfx.color_management.mode pref to 0 on the about:config page to disable Color Management. You need to close and restart Firefox to make the change effective. See:

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox menu button/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox menu button/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window